Sculpt and shape your ultimate body. In Strong & Sculpted, internationally renowned fitness expert Brad Schoenfeld’s proven training practices will help you get real-world results. Featuring 117 exercises, the book is based on Schoenfeld’s years of expertise with celebrity clients and elite competitors.

WordPress has continued to grow in both popularity and capability over the last few years, and has evolved from being an iconic blogging platform to a powerful content management system that hosts everything from personal blogs and fan sites to message boards and eCommerce sites. As you’ll discover, WordPress truly does have all of the tools and components you will need to get started with your blog. This new edition of WordPress for Beginners has been written by experts and enthusiasts to teach you how to set up an account, how the interface functions, and how to publish and customise your very first website. In addition, we will give you even more handy tips on how you can add custom code to your site to make it even more user friendly and interactive.

Learn everything you need to know about digital photography with the Digital Photographer’s Handbook 6th Edition, the definitive photography guide. This digital photography guide is jam-packed with inspirational images and jargon-free tips to demystify the technical elements of photography and get you taking great shots every time. Fully updated to include all of the latest developments in digital cameras, equipment and software, this stunning guide explores the pros and cons of all types of camera, from camera phones to top-of-the-range DSLRs. Learn how to manipulate your pictures to perfection and pick up trouble-shooting advice to make the most out of your camera. Suitable for all levels of experience, the Digital Photographer’s Handbook 6th edition is perfect for anyone looking to get snap happy.

It’s never too late to get in shape. All you need is four weeks and this ultimate gym-free guide to cut fat, build lean muscle and feel your best.
This 164-page fat loss bible will provide you with everything you need to burn fat fast. The four-week training and meal plan is designed by Bradley Simmonds, personal trainer to top Premier League footballers and a leading coach on Instagram (@bradleysimmonds) where he inspires his 90,000+ followers with daily workouts. The book includes 18 easy-to-follow workouts that can all be done at home and each take less than 20 minutes, making it perfect for the busiest of schedules. They cycle between high-intensity interval training (HIIT) to burn calories, resistance training to build strength and low intensity yoga-inspired drills for recovery, designed by top London instructor Laura-Kate Brown (@lozziebrown_yoga).
Alongside the workouts are detailed meal plans for the full 28 days with 16 delicious recipes to follow, from a hearty full-English breakfast to cheat-day oat pancakes that will help you lose fat without sacrificing flavour. In the book you’ll also find the most up-to-date training and nutrition knowledge from the experts at Men’s Fitness, from the supplements to support your efforts, the essential training kit to invest in and holiday drills to stay trim on the go, to help you get – and stay – fit and healthy long-term.

Every weekend warrior has two goals: compete successfully and look great doing it. Enter Building Muscle & Performance: The Program for Strength, Size, and Speed by expert trainer Nick Tumminello.
Building Muscle & Performance includes numerous exercises and ready-to-use programs. Detailed photo sequences depict every movement as well as variations to increase or decrease difficulty. You’ll find expert advice, equipment tips, and safety precautions. More important, you’ll find the results you’ve been looking for.
You no longer have to choose between a chiseled physique and athletic performance. Building Muscle & Performance delivers the best of both worlds: the muscle and the hustle!

When it comes to thrilling sporting spectacles, there’s nothing else quite like the NFL. A deep sport illed with complex strategies, played some of the most physically gifted athletes in the world, football has grown into one of the most compelling forms of sporting entertainment on Earth. With the drama of Super Bowl 50 behind us, the 2016 season promises to be the best the league has seen yet. The NFL Book is a complete guide to the United States’ favourite sport “ a celebration of football for newcomers and gridiron veterans alike. Tapping into to the leagues growing global popularity, the book covers everything from the basic rules of football, to the sports most incredible records and statistics. It also proiles every NFL franchise, from the Bufalo Bills to the Seattle Seahawks, as well counting down the greatest players and games in the history of the league. No matter who you follow, theres something for every football fan here.

Today’s world is driven by technology. It’s changed the way we communicate over mobile phones and the Internet, the way we travel in hybrid cars and on hoverboards, the way we build high skyscrapers and underground metro systems, and the way we treat patients and investigate crimes. The newest developments in technology change the way we live, but few of us actually understand the inner workings of our most sophisticated gadgets and machines. With this newly revised edition of The How It Works Book of Amazing Technology, we aim to answer the questions behind today’s technology, from small household appliances like an espresso machine, to huge and intangible concepts like near fi eld communication in smartphones. Get closer to understanding our world, and start reading!

User experience design is the discipline of creating a useful and usable Web site or application—one that’s easily navigated and meets the needs of both the site owner and its users. But there’s a lot more to successful UX design than knowing the latest Web technologies or design trends: It takes diplomacy, project management skills, and business savvy. That’s where this book comes in. Authors Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler show you how to integrate UX principles into your project from start to finish.

Celebrate 50 years of one of the longest running and beloved sci-fi franchises with The Star Trek Book. This comprehensive guide to the series delves into the myriad worlds and different dimensions visited by the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Perfect for fans of the various Star Trek TV series, including The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise, The Star Trek Book details everything you need to know about 50 years of excitement and adventure on the final frontier.

The Thirteenth Edition reflects the latest trends in marketing, including new coverage on online, social media, mobile, and other digital technologies, leaving students with a richer understanding of basic marketing concepts, strategies, and practices.

Nowadays, society loves to capture their lives in colorful shots and movies they can place on YouTube, Facebook, or their own websites. Rugged and lightweight, GoPro cameras empower their users by providing powerful technology to tell stories that strike the right balance of words and pictures. These high-tech cameras enable users to capture powerful images–whether it’s the miraculous beauty of a shark swimming by a coral reef or a motor cross biker flying. However, users can’t just thrust this camera underwater or mount the camera to a bike and hope for the best. They need to understand the basics about how to correctly operate, mount, and care for this camera in all types of environments. They need to learn the camera’s capabilities before they start spending serious cash on accessories and actually using it.

It takes some practice to get handy with AutoCAD. It doesn’t hurt to have a good guide at your side to get you through the rough spots when you’re practicing.AutoCAD For Dummies is an ideal companion to have when you’re learning the basics of AutoCAD. It’s also helpful for experienced AutoCAD users who need quick answers to their questions. Written by a former engineer and AutoCAD teacher, the book walks you through the basics of setting up projects and making simple drawings all the way up to creating 3D models.

The 20th century was a revolutionary period in art history. In the span of a few short years, Modernism exploded into being, disrupting centuries of classical figurative tradition to create something entirely new. This astoundingly thorough survey of art’s modern era showcases all of the key artistic movements of the 20th century, from Fauvism to Pop Art, featuring illustrative examples of some of the most renowned works of the era along with illuminating companion essays by expert critics and art historians. A vivid window into the collective psyche of the modern world’s great artists, Art of the 20th Century is a must-have for any fan of contemporary art.

From photographing a dew drop in spring to a beautiful winter frost you can now follow your hobby throughout the year with Digital Photography Month by Month. Be inspired as renowned photographer Tom Ang shows you how to capture the moods and moments of each season to stunning effect. Whatever your level of expertise or type of camera from the best digital SLRs on the market right down to camera phones, you’ll find tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your shot. Fully updated for this second edition with the latest developments in technology and equipment, you’ll learn how to take great photographs that convey a sense of time, place and atmosphere

How to Draw is for artists, architects and designers. It is useful to the novice, the student and the professional. You will learn how to draw any object or environment from your imagination, starting with the most basic perspective drawing skills. Early chapters explain how to draw accurate perspective grids and ellipses that in later chapters provide the foundation for more complex forms. The research and design processes used to generate visual concepts are demonstrated, making it much easier for you to draw things never-before-seen!Best of all, more than 25 pages can be scanned via a smartphone or tablet using the new Design Studio Press app, which link to video tutorials for that section of the book!With a combined 26 years of teaching experience, Scott Robertson and Thomas Bertling bring you the lessons and techniques they have used to help thousands of their students become professional artists and designers.

This book will show you how to develop and maintain your own powerful mental toughness with a series of advanced technique and strategies. It will reveal how you can use your own mental strength to push through any ordeal to victory, to endure any suffering to gain huge success.If you want to gain victories in every aspect of life, to push forward to spectacular triumphs then READ THIS BOOK. It will change your life forever.

The modern world is hard to imagine without the Internet. It is also difficult to picture a successful business that is not represented in it. The Internet opens up great opportunities for businesses marketing, promotion of products and services

Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in the twelfth century, he is the Islamic worlds preeminent hero. A ruthless defender of his faith and brilliant leader, he also possessed qualities that won admiration from his Christian foes. But Saladin is far more than a historical hero. Builder, literary patron, and theologian, he is a man for all times, and a symbol of hope for an Arab world once again divided. Centuries after his death, in cities from Damascus to Cairo and beyond, to the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf, Saladin continues to be an immensely potent symbol of religious and military resistance to the West. He is central to Arab memories, sensibilities, and the ideal of a unified Islamic state. John Man charts Saladin’s rise to power, his struggle to unify the warring factions of his faith, and his battles to retake Jerusalem and expel Christian influence from Arab lands. Saladin explores the life and enduring legacy of this champion of Islam while examining his significance for the world today.

Go deep into the architecture and features of ASP.NET MVC 5, and learn how to build web applications that work well on both the desktop and mobile devices. Web development expert Dino Esposito takes you through the web framework’s Model-View-Controller (MVC) design model, and covers the tools you need to cleanly separate business logic from the user interface. If you’re an experienced web developer new to ASP.NET MVC, this practical guide will get you going.

To achieve the complex task of interpreting what we see, our brains rely on statistical regularities and patterns in visual data. Knowledge of these regularities can also be considerably useful in visual computing disciplines, such as computer vision, computer graphics, and image processing. The field of natural image statistics studies the regularities to exploit their potential and better understand human vision. With numerous color figures throughout, Image Statistics in Visual Computing covers all aspects of natural image statistics, from data collection to analysis to applications in computer graphics, computational photography, image processing, and art.

So you have a Canon DSLR? Do you know how to get the most from your sophisticated camera? Canon DSLR: The Ultimate Photographer’s Guide is a thorough, in-depth and step-by-step look at how to understand the Canon digital photography system and how to optimize your digital photography workflow from pre capture to output. Chris Grey shows you how to customize your DSLR according to the genre you are working in. He showcases the work of professional photographers from the worlds of wedding photography, fine art, sports/action, portrait and nature and each photographer explains their differing workflow requirements and how they get the best shots. Starting with the issues you will face: which file format – RAW or JPEG? Which camera? Which lens? Which software? – and moving on to covering the specific features of all the new Canon DSLRs in the EOS system, from the nifty Digital Rebel XTi to the awesome 1D Mark III, Chris Grey shows you how to get the most out of each camera. He shows images taken and the settings he has used so you can see the exact effect of each function. Packed with tips from the pros, key workflow solutions and images side by side showing different camera functions, this book is a must have for any Canon shooter.

We humans are hardly immune to the profound influence of parasites. Organisms we pick up from our own pets are strongly suspected of changing our personality traits and contributing to recklessness, impulsivity—even suicide. Microbes in our gut affect our emotions and the very wiring of our brains. Germs that cause colds and flu may alter our behavior even before symptoms become apparent.

Committed to Excellence in the Eleventh Edition. This edition continues the evolution of Raven & Johnson’s Biology. The author team is committed to continually improving the text, keeping the student and learning foremost. The integrated pedagogical features expand the students’ learning process and enhance their learning experience. This latest edition of the text maintains the clear, accessible, and engaging writing style of past editions with the solid framework of pedagogy that highlights an emphasis on evolution and scientific inquiry that have made this a leading textbook for students majoring in biology. This emphasis on the organizing power of evolution is combined with an integration of the importance of cellular, molecular biology and genomics to offer our readers a text that is student friendly and current.

Rudyard Kipling died in 1936. In one of his last poetic pleas, the brilliant creator of “The Jungle Book” invited readers to take another look at his fantastic tales in order to find all the answers regarding the destiny of man.

Complete Atlas of the World, 3rd Edition is now fully revised and updated to reflect the latest changes in world geography, including the annexation of Crimea and the new nation of South Sudan. Bringing each featured landscape to life with detailed terrain models and color schemes and offering maps of unsurpassed quality, this atlas features four sections: a world overview, the main atlas, fact files on all the countries of the world, and an easy-to-reference index of all 100,000 place names. All maps enjoy a full double-page spread, with continents broken down into 330 carefully selected maps, including 100 city plans. You will also find a stimulating series of global thematic maps that explore Earth’s place in the universe, its physical forms and processes, the living world, and the human condition. From Antarctica to Zambia, discover the Earth continent-by-continent with Complete Atlas of the World, 3rd Edition.

The Shakespeare Book brings the work of William Shakespeare to life with full-color photography, images, idea webs, timelines, and quotes that help you understand the context of Shakespeare’s plays and poems. From Shakespeare’s most-famous plays, such as Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar, to less-frequently performed works such as King John and Henry VIII, every play of the Shakespearean canon is collected in this comprehensive guide, along with his major poems and best-loved sonnets. In The Shakespeare Book each play includes an at-a-glance guide to story chronology, so you can easily get back on track if you get lost in Shakespeare’s language. Character guides provide a handy reference for casual readers and an invaluable resource for playgoers, and students writing reports on Shakespeare. Packed with infographics and explanations of plots and including an introduction to Shakespeare’s life and times, The Shakespeare Book is the ultimate guide to understanding the work of William Shakespeare.

Revised and updated to cover even more common Office 2016 tasks! Whether you are a beginner, casual user or an IT professional, you will learn everything you need to know about Office 2016 fundamentals in this premiere user guide for work, home and play! This user guide written by a 20-year Microsoft Veteran is full of hacks, tips, shortcuts and tricks that will show you how to master Office 2016 in the shortest amount of time possible. During the course of reading this book, you will master a number of complex topics, commands, functions and techniques.